Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how shahidaac.com collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you visit the website, contact us, subscribe to updates, purchase digital products, use affiliate links, make a payment, or interact with services connected to this website.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where consent is required by law, optional cookies and similar technologies will be used only after consent has been provided.

1. Website Owner and Data Controller

The person responsible for personal information collected directly through this website is:

2. Information We May Collect

The information collected depends on how you use the website.

Information You Provide

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number, organization, or professional details when voluntarily submitted
  • Messages sent through contact forms or email
  • Project, employment, consulting, research, or collaboration enquiries
  • Newsletter subscription details and communication preferences
  • Comments, feedback, testimonials, or other content you choose to submit
  • Order, support, membership, or commission information received through Gumroad, Ko-fi, or another connected service

Information Collected Automatically

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser and device information
  • Operating system
  • Approximate location based on technical information
  • Pages visited and links selected
  • Visit date, time, and duration
  • Referring website or traffic source
  • Cookie identifiers and consent preferences
  • Security logs, error reports, and information used to detect misuse

3. How We Use Information

Information may be used for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, and secure the website
  • To respond to messages and enquiries
  • To manage consulting, freelance, research, or professional service requests
  • To deliver digital products, resources, or requested information
  • To manage newsletter subscriptions and optional communications
  • To understand website traffic and content performance
  • To improve website usability, accessibility, and technical performance
  • To prevent fraud, spam, abuse, unauthorized access, and security incidents
  • To maintain transaction and business records
  • To comply with legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting obligations

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable privacy law requires a legal basis, personal information may be processed under one or more of the following grounds:

  • Consent: when you subscribe, accept optional cookies, or agree to a specific use of your information
  • Contract: when processing is necessary to provide a purchased product, service, commission, or membership
  • Legitimate interests: when necessary to operate, secure, improve, and understand the website, provided those interests do not override your rights
  • Legal obligation: when information must be processed to comply with applicable law

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored on your device. This website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential functions, remember preferences, measure traffic, improve performance, and protect the website from misuse.

Cookies may include:

  • Essential cookies: required for security, page delivery, forms, account functions, or consent management
  • Preference cookies: used to remember choices and settings
  • Analytics cookies: used to measure website use and performance
  • Third party cookies: used by embedded media, payment services, social platforms, affiliate services, or other external providers

Where required by law, nonessential cookies will not be placed until you provide consent. You may accept, reject, or manage optional cookies through the website’s cookie controls, where available.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some website functions.

6. Website Analytics

This website may use Google Analytics or another analytics service to understand how visitors use the website and to improve its content and performance.

Analytics services may process information such as:

  • Pages viewed
  • Visit duration
  • Device and browser type
  • Approximate geographic area
  • Referral source
  • Technical identifiers

Google requires websites using Google Analytics to disclose its use and explain that data may be collected and processed by Google. Where consent is required, analytics will be activated only after consent is provided.

7. Contact Forms and Email

When you contact us through a form or by email, the information you provide may be retained to:

  • Respond to your enquiry
  • Assess a project, employment, research, or collaboration request
  • Maintain business and communication records
  • Prevent spam and abuse
  • Manage any professional relationship that results from the enquiry

Do not send passwords, confidential industrial information, classified material, security credentials, personal financial data, or other sensitive information through a general contact form.

8. Newsletter and Email Updates

If you subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list, your email address and communication preferences may be used to send requested articles, updates, resources, product information, or professional announcements.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe option in the message or by contacting [email protected].

9. Affiliate Links

This website may contain affiliate links. When you follow an affiliate link, the external merchant or affiliate network may use cookies, referral identifiers, or similar technologies to record the referral and determine whether a qualifying purchase or action occurred.

The merchant or affiliate provider processes information according to its own privacy policy. Where required, affiliate tracking cookies will be subject to consent.

10. Gumroad

Digital products may be sold through Gumroad. When you view or purchase a Gumroad product, Gumroad may collect and process information necessary to operate its platform, complete transactions, deliver products, prevent fraud, provide customer support, and comply with legal obligations.

Information received from Gumroad may include:

  • Customer name
  • Email address
  • Product purchased
  • Transaction details
  • Country or regional tax information
  • Refund or support information

Payment information is processed by Gumroad and its payment providers. Complete payment card information is not stored directly by shahidaac.com.

Your use of Gumroad is also subject to Gumroad’s own privacy policy and terms.

11. Ko-fi

Ko-fi may be used to receive voluntary support, sell products, provide memberships, or accept commission and service requests.

When you interact with Ko-fi, information may be processed by Ko-fi and the connected payment provider. Depending on the transaction, information shared with the creator may include your name, email address, support message, order details, membership information, or commission request.

Payments may be processed through PayPal, Stripe, or another supported provider. Those providers process information under their own privacy policies.

Your use of Ko-fi is also subject to Ko-fi’s privacy policy and platform terms.

12. Payment Processing

Payments for products, services, memberships, or support may be processed by third party providers such as Gumroad, Ko-fi, PayPal, Stripe, or another payment service.

Payment providers may collect:

  • Name and contact details
  • Billing information
  • Payment method details
  • Transaction information
  • Fraud prevention and verification information

Payment providers act under their own legal terms and privacy policies. Complete payment card details are not stored directly on shahidaac.com.

13. Comments

If comments are enabled, information entered in the comment form may be collected together with your IP address, browser information, and related technical data for moderation, spam detection, and security.

Approved comments and the name or profile details you provide may be visible publicly. Do not include confidential or sensitive information in a public comment.

14. Embedded Content

Pages may contain embedded content from external services, including videos, maps, documents, social posts, forms, code repositories, payment pages, or professional profiles.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the external website directly. The external provider may collect information, use cookies, or monitor your interaction according to its own privacy policy.

15. Search Engines and Webmaster Services

This website may use services such as Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow, or similar tools to monitor indexing, search performance, technical issues, and website visibility.

These services may process technical website and search performance information under their own terms and privacy policies.

16. Service Providers

Information may be processed by service providers that support the operation of the website, including:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Domain and content delivery services
  • Security, backup, and spam prevention services
  • Analytics providers
  • Email and newsletter providers
  • Contact form providers
  • Payment processors
  • Digital product and membership platforms
  • Affiliate networks and merchants
  • Search engines and webmaster services

These providers may process limited information on our behalf or under their own legal responsibilities.

17. When Information May Be Shared

We do not sell or rent personal information.

Information may be shared when reasonably necessary:

  • With service providers that support the website and connected services
  • To complete a requested transaction or service
  • When you request or authorize the disclosure
  • To investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
  • To protect legal rights, safety, property, systems, or users
  • To comply with applicable law, legal process, or lawful authority
  • As part of a lawful transfer or restructuring involving the website or related business activity

18. International Data Transfers

This website is operated from Bangladesh and may use service providers located in other countries.

Personal information may therefore be processed in Bangladesh, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, or another country in which a service provider operates.

Privacy laws may differ between countries. Where required, appropriate contractual, technical, or organizational safeguards will be used for international transfers.

19. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

  • Contact messages may be retained while an enquiry or professional relationship remains active and for a reasonable period afterward
  • Order and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, and legal purposes
  • Newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion
  • Analytics information is retained according to the configured settings of the analytics provider
  • Security and server logs may be retained for a limited period for troubleshooting and abuse prevention
  • Information may be retained longer when required by law or necessary to resolve a dispute

20. Data Security

Reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures are used to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These measures may include encrypted connections, access controls, software updates, backups, security monitoring, and spam prevention.

No website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

21. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information held about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of information, subject to legal exceptions
  • Request restriction of certain processing
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • Request data portability where applicable
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Unsubscribe from optional communications
  • Submit a complaint to an appropriate privacy or data protection authority

To submit a privacy request, email [email protected]. Reasonable information may be requested to verify your identity before a request is completed.

22. European Economic Area and United Kingdom Visitors

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, applicable data protection law may provide rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, consent withdrawal, and complaints to a supervisory authority.

Optional analytics, affiliate tracking, advertising, or similar technologies will be subject to consent where required by law.

23. United States Privacy Rights

Residents of certain United States jurisdictions may have additional rights concerning access, correction, deletion, and disclosure of personal information where the relevant law applies.

We do not knowingly sell personal information in exchange for money.

24. Children

This website is intended for a general professional and educational audience and is not directed at children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children who are not legally able to provide valid consent in their jurisdiction. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so that the matter can be reviewed.

25. External Links

This website may contain links to external websites, products, services, educational resources, professional profiles, research platforms, or affiliate merchants.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, content, security, or data handling practices of external websites. Review the privacy policy of any external service before providing information.

26. Automated Decision Making

Personal information collected directly through this website is not used to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects solely through automated processing.

27. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in website functions, service providers, legal requirements, or information handling practices.

The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated effective date.

28. Contact

For privacy questions, requests, complaints, or concerns, contact:

This Privacy Policy provides general information about the website’s privacy practices and does not constitute legal advice.